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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-43172 EUVD-2022-4484GHSA-m3x9-623g-35c4

Infinite length chain of RRDP repositories

Published Nov 9, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2 happily processes a chain of RRDP repositories of infinite length causing it to never finish a validation run. In RPKI, a CA can choose the RRDP repository it wishes to publish its data in. By continuously generating a new child CA that only consists of another CA using a different RRDP repository, a malicious CA can create a chain of CAs of de-facto infinite length. Routinator prior to version 0.10.2 did not contain a limit on the length of such a chain and will therefore continue to process this chain forever. As a result, the validation run will never finish, leading to Routinator continuing to serve the old data set or, if in the initial validation run directly after starting, never serve any data at all.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Routinator unspecified – ≤ 0.10.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rpki-client 7.5-1 —
Debian 13 rpki-client 7.5-1 —
Debian 12 rpki-client 7.5-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cfrpki No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io routinator < 0.10.2 0.10.2 GHSA-m3x9-623g-35c4

References